Temperature increase 'virtually insignificant'

Opinion: Why climate change predictions are overblown

The old saying, "There are two sides to every story," doesn't necessarily translate to "climate change" (which was changed from "global warming") once the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change figured out that its dire predictions of hell on earth may now be changing to ice.

Last year's claim that 2014 was the warmest on record was based on a 0.04 degree difference in global temperatures from the next warmest year in 2010. That amounts to a virtually insignificant statistical figure when the temperatures of the entire globe are taken into account.

Which brings me to another old saying, "A lot of figures lie but also a lot of liars figure." I think of this whenever I see the IPCC mentioned as the basis for climate figures.

The IPCC bases its predictions on one thing — carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. It totally ignores the verified scientific data from Arctic and Antarctic ice samples over the last 400,000 years (yes, that's 400,000 years) that carbon dioxide levels have fluctuated dramatically. It hasn't occurred to anyone that there weren't any people around then.

Using these one-sided conclusions, many people are benefiting financially and politically.